{"id":149,"date":"2021-04-01T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=149"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:07:53","slug":"low-tide-at-st-andrews","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/low-tide-at-st-andrews\/","title":{"raw":"Low Tide at St. Andrews","rendered":"Low Tide at St. Andrews"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>(New Brunswick)<\/h2>\r\nThe long red flats stretch open to the sky,\r\nBreathing their moisture on the August air.\r\nThe seaweeds cling with flesh-like fingers where\r\nThe rocks give shelter that the sands deny;\r\nAnd wrapped in all her summer harmonies\r\nSt. Andrews sleeps beside her sleeping seas.\r\n\r\nThe far-off shores swim blue and indistinct,\r\nLike half-lost memories of some old dream.\r\nThe listless waves that catch each sunny gleam\r\nAre idling up the waterways land-linked,\r\nAnd, yellowing along the harbour\u2019s breast,\r\nThe light is leaping shoreward from the west.\r\n\r\nAnd naked-footed children, tripping down,\r\nLight with young laughter, daily come at eve\r\nTo gather dulse and sea clams and then heave\r\nTheir loads, returning laden to the town,\r\nLeaving a strange grey silence when they go,\u2014\r\nThe silence of the sands when tides are low.","rendered":"<h2>(New Brunswick)<\/h2>\n<p>The long red flats stretch open to the sky,<br \/>\nBreathing their moisture on the August air.<br \/>\nThe seaweeds cling with flesh-like fingers where<br \/>\nThe rocks give shelter that the sands deny;<br \/>\nAnd wrapped in all her summer harmonies<br \/>\nSt. Andrews sleeps beside her sleeping seas.<\/p>\n<p>The far-off shores swim blue and indistinct,<br \/>\nLike half-lost memories of some old dream.<br \/>\nThe listless waves that catch each sunny gleam<br \/>\nAre idling up the waterways land-linked,<br \/>\nAnd, yellowing along the harbour\u2019s breast,<br \/>\nThe light is leaping shoreward from the west.<\/p>\n<p>And naked-footed children, tripping down,<br \/>\nLight with young laughter, daily come at eve<br \/>\nTo gather dulse and sea clams and then heave<br \/>\nTheir loads, returning laden to the town,<br \/>\nLeaving a strange grey silence when they go,\u2014<br \/>\nThe silence of the sands when tides are low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-149","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":136,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/149\/revisions\/343"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/136"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/149\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}